How to Use jockey for position in a Sentence

jockey for position

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• Fans jockey for position in the water, hoping to catch home runs.
  — Loureen Ayyoub, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
• There is time for teams to jockey for position, as the regular season runs through the end of the month.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
• Forty fans clamor at the door outside; the girls jockey for position around the table.
  — Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
• In the dogfights the planes jockey for position like matchbox cars and flip and bank and invert in ways that take your breath away.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 27 May 2022
• Contestants use their knowledge of trivia to jockey for position in this new game show.
  — cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• This design makes for a lot of tense moments as players use up their items and jockey for position at the end of each section cutoff.
  — ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
• Groups jockey for position all the time, as attention produces funding.
  — Micah L. Sifry, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
• There is plenty of star power on both sides as the Thorns and Wave jockey for position atop the league standings.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2022
• The industry has seen a flurry of deals as companies jockey for position amid rapidly changing rules.
  — Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Cole is expected to start at point guard, and Gaffney and sophomore Andre Jackson will jockey for position at the shooting guard spot.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 19 July 2021
• As these ambitious fintech startups jockey for position, a few critical factors could help separate winners from losers.
  — Parijat Banerjee, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• These plates continually jockey for position, shaping the array of features visible at the surface.
  — Science, 8 Dec. 2020
• Vegas is a possible, albeit unlikely, first-round opponent for Colorado, which knows its destiny even as a glut of teams jockey for position down ballot.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
• Seavey, who with a victory would become the race’s greatest champion, was the first musher to leave Ophir as mushers continue to jockey for position in the early part of the race.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2022
• Racing is intense, with staggered starts to allow the non-class boats time to move through the racecourse, while one-designs often jockey for position, usually aggressively, to lead their groups.
  — Tonya Russell, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024
• The restraining order injects fresh uncertainty into the race as candidates jockey for position and funding in the crucial weeks leading up to the ballot.
  — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
• While replacement candidates jockey for position, the main question remains whether there’s an appetite among voters to remove Newsom from office.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
• American and Chinese warships often jockey for position in the South China Sea.
  — Robert Burns, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• Watching the young employees jockey for position and avoid being cut will remind you of the early antics at Seattle Grace Hospital.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• Entering Friday, only two playoff seeds out of a possible 20 had been solidified, leaving teams few days left to jockey for position.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
• The endorsements come as the two independent candidates jockey for position as the front-runners for what is likely to be a single available seat in the District council’s at-large race.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• The letter also comes as Republicans jockey for position ahead of the GOP primary early next year.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• This could spark the greatest scramble for territory out West since the days of the Gold Rush, as schools jockey for position in the rapidly changing landscape of college football.
  — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• To that end, Holmes said he was not caught off guard by last week’s maneuvering, two trades of high first-round picks — rare for their timing in March — as teams jockey for position to land one of the draft’s handful of elite talents.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2021
• This will drastically shake up the financial services industry as players jockey for position with beneficiaries.
  — Mike Sha, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Their complicated dynamic — a love triangle of sorts — is the central point of tension in the film, as Kathy and Johnny jockey for position in Benny’s heart.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 24 June 2024
• Realism assumes that in world politics, nothing is ever truly settled; countries ceaselessly jockey for position and advantage.
  — Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025
• As countries and tech giants jockey for position, the geopolitical tempest that ensues may overshadow the transformative potential of the technology.
  — Reva Goujon, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
• The piecemeal nature of legalization means that the industry’s biggest companies—both domestic and international—continue to jockey for position amid a land grab for market share.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Even as the two countries jockey for position on issues ranging from Hong Kong to 5G, the development and manufacturing of batteries is likely to emerge as a modern-day arms race.
  — Nadia Schadlow, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021